French Open 2016: women's semi-finals, Novak Djokovic and more!

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Serena Williams

None of your nonsense today, Mother Nature. How about you take a back seat for a bit, eh? No one’s here to see you. They’re here to see Andy Murray and Stan Wawrinka, Novak Djokovic and Dominic Thiem, Serena Williams and Kiki Bertens, and Garbine Muguruza and Sam Stosur. No thanks to the weather, we’ve finally reached semi-finals day at the French Open.
The schedule has taken a fair old battering from the rain, but here we are, with the men’s and the women’s semis to get us through to pub time.
The women are on first and who knows what to expect? All eyes will be on Serena after she sailed dangerously close to the wind in her quarter-final win over Yulia Putintseva, fighting back from a set and a break down to beat the world No60 5-7, 6-4, 6-1. It was a wonderfully weird performance from the world No1 - Putintseva was a point away from serving from the match - and she seemed to be fighting herself at times, but she got there in the end. And as a nice surprise, Williams gets to play Bertens, the world No58, instead of eighth seed Timea Bacsinszky. Bertens is 24, she’s Dutch and this is her first grand slam semi-final.
The winner will face either Muguruza or Stosur in tomorrow’s final. Stosur, the 2011 US Open champion, has rolled back the years this week but the Australian will have her work cut out against the Spaniard, the world No4.
Once those matches are done, it’s over to the men. I’ll be providing live coverage of Murray v Wawrinka elsewhere, while this blog concentrates on Djokovic v Thiem. The world No1 is chasing his first French Open title - but he’ll be wary of the challenge from the rising young Austrian, who beat David Goffin yesterday to reach his first grand slam semi-final.
Could we be treated to a couple of upsets today? We’ll soon find out. As long as the weather doesn’t get in the way, we’ll all be happy.
Play begins: 12pm BST, 1pm in Paris.

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